The organisations supplying Police Scotland with information that is recorded on the VPD

SJA Grove made this Freedom of Information request to Police Scotland This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.

The request was refused by Police Scotland.

Dear Police Scotland,

Will Police Scotland provide the full list of organisations that provide Police Scotland with information that is recorded on the VPD and for which Police Scotland is the Data Controller?

Yours faithfully,

SJA Grove

Police Scotland

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FOI, Inverness, Police Scotland

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Good afternoon

 

Please find attached a response to your recent request for information.

 

Regards

 

Information Management Unit

Police Scotland 

Divisional Headquarters

Old Perth Road

Inverness

IV2 3SY

 

E-mail: [1][email address]

Website:  [2]www.scotland.police.uk

Twitter:  @policescotland

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Dear Police Scotland,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Police Scotland's handling of my FOI request 'The organisations supplying Police Scotland with information that is recorded on the VPD'.

The refusal of Police Scotland to provide the full list of organisations that provide Police Scotland with data/information that is recorded on the Vulnerable Persons Database (VPD) is congruent with a systemic policy of “plausible deniability" being used by Police Scotland to mask the organisations who populate the VPD with false information, potentially with malevolent and malicious motivations

When an individual in Scotland has identified that they have been libelled on the Vulnerable Persons Database (VPD) for example they have received a DPA 2018 Subject Access Request on the information that is held by a local authority social work department on a child/children (born after 2006 where that individual is listed as being a parent on the birth certificate) and the local authority has not redacted (maybe to their chagrin) the header detailing that the incorrect and libellous information held on the social work system is from the VPD then it would appear that the individual who has the false and libellous information recorded on them will not be able to identify the source of this information.
It would appear (though it cannot be certain) that Police Scotland has implemented a system with the VPD whereby individuals are unable to enact their rights under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) to identify the source of the false information such that it can be challenged under a Right to Rectification process. In short Police Scotland could have set up an “invisible data chain".
A heavily redacted DPA 2018 SAR from Stirling Council (that is currently under an ICO complaint investigation) has shown that a Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) was held on an individual that was almost certainly on 15 November 2018, a date that preceded a communication (of a religious nature) between a father of a child/children and his own parents relating to the father's child protection concerns pertaining to a Police Scotland 999 call locus. This shows that the charity ‘SafeLives' is one organisation that populates the VPD with information/data.
A heavily redacted DPA 2018 SAR from Stirling Council (that is currently under an ICO complaint investigation) has shown that information has been source by the VPD and the SAR states that an individual “apparently suffered from psychotic depression". As the Citizen's Advice Bureau (CAB) Stirling employee Gillian BAKER wrote in a letter to a family law solicitor in 2016 that the same individual had actually suffered from psychotic depression this indicates that “plausible deniability" is being used by organisations when they pass information to Police Scotland. This indicates (though it cannot be certain) that the charity CAB Stirling is one organisation that populates the VPD with information/data potentially with ‘SafeLives' and the MARAC process as the conduit.
A prescribed list was not requested, just the organisations that report the "crimes" for which Police Scotland have validated the organisation to have "positive relationships" with Police Scotland (according to Police Scotland's own SOPs) and whom Police Scotland therefore view as trustworthy to provide accurate information/data.
Will Police Scotland revisit this FOI request and provide the list of organisations, in addition to ‘SafeLives' who provide information/data that is recorded on the VPD or respond with why this organisation information is not recorded as source of information on the VPD (e.g. not a requirement of the DPA 2018)?

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/t...

Yours faithfully,

SJA Grove

Police Scotland

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road traffic incident or crime reports, or other non-FOI related
enquiries.

Requesting personal information held by Police Scotland
Applications must be made under GDPR/Data Protection Act 2018. Please
follow this link -
[1]http://www.scotland.police.uk/access-to-...

Road traffic incident or crime report relating to property which has been
damaged and/or stolen
Please click on this link -
[2]http://www.scotland.police.uk/about-us/f....

Non FOI related queries
Please phone 101 or refer to this link -
[3]http://www.scotland.police.uk/contact-us

Kind regards

FOI Team
Police Scotland

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FOI, Dundee, Police Scotland

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Dear Mr Grove,

 

Please find attached our response to your recent request for a review of
the above referenced decision.

 

Regards,

 

Claire Sturrock
Disclosure Manager - North
Information Management
Police Scotland
PO Box 59, West Bell Street, Dundee, DD1 9JU
[1]www.scotland.police.uk
@policescotland
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